Gyratons on Melvin spacetime

Article

Gyratons on Melvin spacetime

Kadlecová, H.; Krtouš, P.

Phys. Rev. D 82, 044041 (2010)

Abstract

We present and analyze new exact gyraton solutions of algebraic type II on a background which is static, cylindrically symmetric Melvin universe of type D. For a vanishing electromagnetic field it reduces to previously studied gyratons on Minkowski background. We demonstrate that the solutions are member of a more general family of the Kundt spacetimes. We show that the Einstein equations reduce to a set of mostly linear equations on a transverse 2-space and we discuss the properties of polynomial scalar curvature invariants which are generally non-constant but unaffected by the presence of gyratons.

Institute authors

Krtouš, Pavel

Supported by

GACR 202/09/0772 — Current problems of gravitation, general relativity and relativistic astrophysics
GACR 205/09/H033 — General relativity and its applications in astrophysics and cosmology
GAUK 122/2009 — Studium Kundtových a Robinsonových-Trautmanových zářivých prostoročasů
LC06014 — Centrum teoretické astrofyziky

BibTeX

@article{UTF390,
  author        = {Kadlecová, H. and Krtouš, P.},
  title         = {{Gyratons on Melvin spacetime}},
  journal       = {Phys. Rev. D},
  volume        = {82},
  pages         = {044041},
  year          = {2010},
  doi           = {10.1103/PhysRevD.82.044041},
  eprint        = {1006.1794},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
}